Simulation

-I think this had something to do with the MIT-related 'Collective Intelligence' conference, 2012.

a prediction machine that although it doesn't account for the entirety of the real world, it, by recreating a simplified version which lacks not only all realistic details but also certain limits known to that real world regarding process-time (or, in more dangerous words, in the majority of the laws which govern the physical world as we know it), and though it does not "know" the real in its entirety, it does affect it, and continually and exceedingly so, until it becomes that world - a new that renders the old insignificant.